Word Meanings - LONG-SUFFERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 6.

Related words: (words related to LONG-SUFFERING)

• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• MERCIFUL
  1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• BEAR
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• SUFFERABLE
  1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• ABUNDANTLY
  In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
• ABUNDANT
  Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• PROVOKEMENT
  The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.
• BEARDIE
  The bearded loach of Europe.
• SUFFERING
  The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.
• BEARDLESS
  1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
• BEARING CLOTH
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• INSUFFERABLY
  In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• MISBEAR
  To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
• PALLBEARER
  One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
• UNDERBEARER
  One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
• ABEARANCE
  Behavior. Blackstone.